Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Mali and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Siouxsie and the Banshees to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Prince Buster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Darondo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bob Dylan,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Stooges,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
PIL,
The Five Americans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lindisfarne,
Niagra,
UT,
Piero Umiliani,
U.S. Maple,
Excepter,
Alphaville,
Scan 7,
Ituana,
Oblivians,
Negative Approach,
Ornette Coleman,
Amon Düül II,
Archie Shepp,
David McCallum,
Minny Pops,
Quantec,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Second Layer,
Deakin,
Underground Resistance,
Rekid,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Banda Bassotti,
Shuggie Otis,
Clear Light,
Peter and Kerry,
Suburban Knight,
Cecil Taylor,
Idris Muhammad,
Harry Pussy,
Erykah Badu,
Pere Ubu,
Panda Bear,
Oneida,
Youth Brigade,
The Tremeloes,
FM Einheit,
The Gories,
Eurythmics,
Mars,
Delon & Dalcan,
Skriet,
Wire,
Bobby Sherman,
The Vogues,
Guru Guru,
Au Pairs,
Andrew Hill,
Sonic Youth,
Eric B and Rakim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.